Word: redressing
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...professors, former presidents of the American Historical Association (Morris) and the American Political Science Association (Burns), decided to redress the historical slight. They dreamed up Project 87 to celebrate America's next Bicentennial, that of the Constitution's adoption, with a cerebral, nine-year program sponsored by the two scholarly associations and culminating on Sept...
...surest way to redress the nation's lopsided trade balance and stabilize the dollar is to slow the flow of foreign oil into the U.S., which is the chief goal of the President's energy program. The complex energy bill is now before a House-Senate conference, and last week the conferees approved one of the key Administration-supported measures. The legislators tentatively accepted the "gas guzzler tax" in just about the form the President first presented it. Under this law, which would take effect next fall, cars delivering less than 15 m.p.g. will cost an extra...
...have absorbed as much bile in their mother's milk as the son of Marguerite Oswald. Her sense of grievance against a world that she felt owed her a living pervaded Lee's life, causing him, at the age of 20, to seek some fancied redress in the U.S.S.R. Though the Soviets finally accorded the American defector privileged status-with perquisites that included an apartment of his own and a cash subsidy-the Soviets' largesse could not satisfy Lee's inexhaustible demands...
Bruce A. Ackerman, Yale Law School: "The court will accept benevolent quotas. The basic idea will be that it is permissible for Government to act to redress past grievances...
Alas for consumers, the glut that is bringing on the discounting is not expected to last beyond the end of the year. Colder weather will then eat into stockpiles and redress the oversupply imbalance. In December, when OPEC's oil ministers meet again, prices could...